Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Has it really been 126 challenges? It just kinda hit me today that we've been doing this for over 2 years. Wow. Time flies sometimes eh?

But I digress...

Happens alot these days I think...

ANYWAY!

This week we have a timely challenge for you over at Stampin' Royalty.

Hop on over and check out the awesome samples created by the design team.

This week the challenge is to create something

MASCULINE

So I decided to get an early start on a few Father's Day cards.

Both my hubby and my dad are really great at building things.

My dad was a carpenter before he retired,

and hubby and I flipped 3 other houses before we moved here last year.

And after all the mess with the flood last December - we're never moving again.

I mean it.

Especially as we're going to finish up my dream Crafting room this summer.

But here I go again.

Focus, Sandra, Focus...

OK, I would up with two cards for the two "Fathers" in my life.

I don't have the background stamp "TOOL SHED" in real life, but I have the DIGITAL version.

I cut out the hammer and popped it up on dimensionals. I cut the long strips of dimensionals from the side parts of the dimensionals. You know, the funny long strips that are left after you use up all the dimensionals on the paper. You can kinda see them peeking out from underneath the hammer in the photo above.

I mounted the hammer on on of the die cuts from the new Apothecary Labels Framelits. I also emobssed it with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder.

Then I mounted it on Early Espresso cardstock and then carefully cut it out to help it stand out against the background.

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I created the sentiment in MDS as well, and then cut it out with a different label from the Apothecary Labels set. Again I mounted it on Early Espresso and carefully cut it out by hand. And then I put it on Old Olive and repeated the last step for a multi layered matte.

OK, now card number two took me a while. I just couldn't figure out what to do with the sentiments.

I finally cut out the Happy Father's Day with the same framelit as in the last card, and then I used my paper cutter to trim off the top and bottom. And then I mounted it on Early Espresso and carefully cut it out by hand again. I did the same with the HANDYMAN sentiment, only I used one of the Bitty Banners Framelits for that.

I used another die cut from the Apothecary Labels set. The same die cut as in the first card, and I even embossed it again with the textured impressions folder.

I cut it in half to frame out this card, but it still didn't look right.

So I grabbed my retiring Crop-a-Dile and some retired grommets, and put a few eyelets in.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Oh yeah, proud momma here. I took these photos of my littie cutie Teagan, last week at the T-Ball field. After trying so hard to get her to smile on the weekend (upcoming Colour Q page for that one) it was so nice to get some genuine smiles from her. What you can't see in the photos is that she's riding on a teeter-totter at the playground. She's such an adrenaline junkie (kinda like her mom)

One of these days I'm going to get more cutie photos of my son I tell you.

I used some upcoming product for this page. This is a new kit called Fan Fair. There's a digital kit, and a real-life paper, stamps, and embellishment suite. I can't wait for June 1st, I tell you.

This paper is going to be perfect for our trip to Europe this summer. Don't worry, I'll have tons of upcoming pages about that trip. I'm bringing my laptop and MDS with me!

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

It's tuesday, time for another cool colour challenge over at the Colour Q.

I made this adorable page using my digital studio and some of the newest downloads.

I found this layout in the Keep This Memory digital kit and I changed up some of the papers and colours to fit the challenge - super easy and oh so cute (well... I am a little biased about how cute my kids are )

Sunday, May 20, 2012

I'm starting to work on some Display Stamper projects for Convention which need to be done soon, but I can't post those projects yet, and I can't let all that MOJO go to waste. So I've been allowing myself to create some cards for Challenges as well. This ADORABLE set is a new hostess set called "A Cherry On Top"

Here's the inside of the card - too cute right???

I really love this little glass dome, and thought that the Emobss Resist challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments was perfect. I usually hate pulling out my heat gun, but once I had embossing powder everywhere (for a display project) I decided - why not??? And here we are.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Here's a sneak peek at a new kit in the upcoming catalogue called Fan Fair. I went into the photobook template and changed up a few colours, added the daffodils and the title and of course, the photo. Voila!

This week at Stampin' Royalty we have a fabulous photo inspiration challenge for you. Below is the photo.

I have to admit that I found this challenge to be, well, challenging.

The colours were too bright for what I had in mind to scrap.

But once I pulled out this photo of Brad's Mom and his brother

I knew I had to scrap it for Mother's Day.

Hop on over to Stampin' Royalty and check out the fabulous work by the design team. Please join us. We'd love to see your take on this photo!